History for September 10

History for September 10 - On-This-Day.com:
Arthur H. Compton 1892, Robert Wise 1914, Arnold Daniel Palmer 1929


Charles Kuralt 1934, Jose Feliciano 1945, Bob Lanier 1948


1813 - The first defeat of British naval squadron occurred in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The leader of the U.S. fleet sent the famous message "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" to U.S. General William Henry Harrison.


1846 - Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine.


1897 - British police arrest George Smith for drunken driving. It was the first DWI.


1899 - A second quake in seven days hit Yakutat Bay, AK. It measured 8.6.


1948 - Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars was indicted for treason in Washington, DC. Gillars was a Nazi radio propagandist during World War II. She was convicted and spent 12 years in prison.


1953 - Swanson began selling its first "TV dinner."


1979 - U.S. President Carter granted clemency to four Puerto Rican nationalists who had been imprisoned for an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954 and an attempted assassination of U.S. President Truman in 1950.


1998 - U.S. President Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize, ask forgiveness and promise to improve as a person in the wake of the scandal involving Monica Lewinsky.